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Eva Braun (1912-1945) In his recent review of Heike Görtemaker’s new book Eva Braun: Life with Hitler (New York Review of Books, Vol. 59, No. 7, Apr. 26, 2012), British historian Antony Beevor writes...

Isadora Duncan was dance-struck as a young child in San Francisco. By the time she was six, she was teaching neighborhood children how to move like ocean waves. The strict rules of ballet and...

May 27, 2012, is the 75th anniversary of the opening celebrations of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. When it opened, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world. It spanned the mile-wide...

Thousands of ships over centuries have lined the ocean floor, but even 100 years after it sank, the Titanic still fascinates. James Cameron’s 1997 critically acclaimed "Titanic"—the second bestselling...

Our Guest Blogger: Barbara Shaffer, unofficial historian of Springfield, Massachusetts From the online archive of the Springfield Republican and Union Memories take many forms: stories of an older...

The Evening Star Newspaper Buildings. Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division On December 16, 1852, a newspaper described by historian Fred A. Emery as “The Rock of Gibraltar in...

Old Evening Star Building on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. -- Source: Carol M. Highsmith Archive (Library of Congress) This spring Readex will begin releasing a complete 70-year span of The...

Lincoln J. Beachey (March 3, 1887 – March 14, 1915) In the early 20th century, aviator Lincoln Beachey and his Curtis biplane amazed and delighted crowds with the “Dip of Death” and his mastery of...

Guest blogger: Ja-ne de Abreu, an award-winning writer in the media production industry currently embarking on her first novel The Louisiana Historical Newspaper Archivehas proven to be an invaluable...

From The Idaho Statesman (April 30, 1911). Source: American Newspaper Archives Today’s woman has a wealth of information at her fingertips on how to get ahead at work. Books such as Nice Girls Don’t...

The Morning Oregonian (Aug. 23, 1908) It was 100 years ago this month that Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, reached the South Pole. For the first time, two expeditions were making attempts to...

Artist's sketch of D. B. Cooper (Photo: Seattle FBI) The first aircraft hijackings were political. Leave it to American ingenuity to monetize the action! D.B. Cooper, not his real name, did it in 1971...

Bobby Jones entered the Roaring Twenties still the teenage prodigy who had first come to the public's attention when he qualified for the U.S. Amateur Championship at the age of 14. By the end of the...

Henry Whitney Bellows (1814-1882), planner and president of the United States Sanitary Commission, the leading soldiers' aid society, during the American Civil War. On April 12, 1861, Confederate...

Source: American Newspaper Archives / America's Historical Newspapers July of 2011 marks 50 years since the suicide of American author and Nobel Laureate Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway ranged far from...

Some things never change, or so suggested the Duluth News Tribune in 1916: The origins of America’s national pastime are murky to say the least. How- ever, the contest now recognized as the first...

One of the joys of browsing American historical newspapers is discovering the unexpected from around the world. Take this photograph, for example, of a car being dragged across a Siberian river during...

A wide selection of diverse titles reveals local, regional and national history Dozens of significant titles from more than 40 states are available individually as a part of America’s Historical...